I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My ambitions are less important than my well-being. My children come first.
Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
My children are the thing that make life work because, you know, I screwed up my life, and I know it was me, and it was really hard because it was so public, and that was very, very hard.
I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.
I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.
I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.
I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.
Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.